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CAMELLIA MALIFLORA, 
Apple-Blossomed Camellia. 
Camellia Maliflora, foliis obovatis acuminatis nitidis convexis, ramulis petiolisque 
pubescentibus, ovario glabro. Bindley. 
Camellia Sasatiqua, /3. Palmer's Double Sasanqua. Botanical Magazine, t. 2080. 
Camellia Sasanqua, /3. stricta: jl. pi. cameo. Mrs. Palmer's Camellia. Botanical 
Register, t. 547. 
Camellia Sasanqua pleno-carneo. Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, t. 1134. 
THIS plant, although figured and described in the works above referred 
to, as being a variety of Camellia Sasanqua, is unquestionably very 
distinct from that species. In growth it is erect and slender, and 
forms a compact bushy shrub, which in the spring months is covered 
with a multitude of delicate purplish-red flowers. The branches are 
round, twiggy, erect, densely clothed with pubescence, and of a dark 
brown colour. 
The leaves are obovate, seldom more than two inches long, and 
one inch broad in the widest part, much pointed and recurved, with 
numerous small sharp serratures. They are of a thin substance, com¬ 
pared with those of the Camellia Sasanqua, or Camellia Japonica: to 
the latter perhaps they have the nearest resemblance, and like them are 
of a dark shining green; but they have a pale-coloured villous midrib, 
and short round villous foot-stalks. 
The flower buds are oval, and blunt at the point, with compara¬ 
tively large roundish-cordate, pubescent, brownish-green scales. 
The flowers vary from one and a half to two inches in diameter, 
and are remarkably handsome, being very regular in their formation, 
and of a pale purplish-red colour. The outer petals expand quite 
flat, some of them indeed are often a little reflexed, but so arranged 
as to give a nice even circumference to the whole flower; they are 
each about three-fourths of an inch broad, nearly round, or but slightly 
divided at their extremity, and of a darker colour than the interior 
petals, which are very pale, excepting at their base, where they have 
the same purplish tinge as the exterior ones. In general, the centre 
petals rise upright, and a few of them a good deal resemble stamens, 
